Janusz Pawliszyn
University of Waterloo, Canada

The primary focus of Professor Pawliszyn's research program is the design of highly automated and integrated instrumentation for the isolation of analytes from complex matrices and the subsequent separation, identification and determination of these species.  Currently his research is focusing on elimination of organic solvents from the sample preparation step to facilitate on-site monitoring and analysis.  Several alternative techniques to solvent extraction are investigated including use of coated fibers, packed needles, membranes and supercritical fluids.  Dr. Pawliszyn is exploring application of the computational and modeling techniques to enhance performance of sample preparation, chromatographic separations and detection.  The major area of his interest involves the development and application of imaging detection techniques for microcolumn chromatography and capillary electrophoresis.

He is an author of over 400 scientific publications and a book on Solid Phase Microextraction. He is a Fellow of Chemical Institute of Canada, Editor of Analytica Chimica Acta, Trends in Analytical Chemistry and a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Separation Science, Analyst, Chemia Analityczna and Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry book series.  He received the 1995 McBryde Medal, the 1996 Tswett Medal, the 1996 Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography Award, the 1996 Caledon Award, the Jubilee Medal 1998 from the Chromatographic Society, U.K., the 2000 Maxxam Award, the 2000 Varian Lecture Award from Carleton University, the Alumni Achievement Award for 2000 from Southern Illinois University, the Humboldt Research Award for 2001, 2002 COLACRO Medal, 2003 Canada Research Chair,  in 2006 he was elected to the most cited chemists by ICI, in 2008 he received A.A. Benedetti-Pichler Award from Eastern Analytical Symposium, Andrzej Waksmundzki Medal from Polish Science Academy and Manning Principal Award.  He presently holds the Canada Research Chair and NSERC Industrial Research Chair in New Analytical Methods and Technologies.

B.S./Chem.Eng., 1977, Technical University of Gdansk
M.Sc., 1978, Technical University of Gdansk
Ph.D., 1982, Southern Illinois University